On 02 Jun 2003 12:21:21 +0200, Christoph Breitkopf <chris@chr-breitkopf.de> wrote:

>d_ruether@hotmail.com (Neuman - Ruether) writes:

>> I have never noticed serious color-fringing with this Nikkor

>> or with any other on film at good stops, viewed with good

>> 5-15X magnifiers, though others report this (and show it)

>> in digital images. Are you finding CF in digital images

>> only, or on film also?

>Depends on your definition of 'serious'. I have seen some

>color fringing in every Nikkor I own and where I cared to

>look for it. My 4/105 Micro is the best of my lenses in

>this regard, and the old 2.8/180 P definitly the worse.

>The 2.8/180 color fringing can easily be seen at 10x

>magnification, and I would call it 'serious'.

>The 2.8/180 ED is not all that much better, and my results

>match those shown on Brian's site, so I assume this

>is typical for this lens.

I have never noticed it in my slides, so I guess it falls

into the category of "not serious" for me with Nikkors

(and I am particular about lens image-quality - see

www.David-Ruether-Photography.com/slemn.html). BTW, with my Sony

707 with "Carl Zeiss" lens the color-fringing toward the

corners at both the wide end of the zoom range and (to a

lesser extent) the long end is painfully obvious and

annoying. Adding WA lens converters generally makes it

unacceptable, though a .8X Olympus works well compared

with the many others I've tried. Over the years, before

digital, no one reported problems with color-fringing

in general, or with Nikkors in particular - which is why

I asked on what medium Brian noted the problem...